Right on the heals of upgrading to version 12.20, we’re testing the beta for UltraEdit Version 13.00. UltraEdit Beats the Competition In January, we compared text editors for Windows, actually hoping to avoid paying for another upgrade to UltraEdit. The comparison included PSPad, Notepad++, EditPlus, UltraEdit, e, inType, TextPad, Crimson, jEdit, Vim, and some others. [...]

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Following up on the Text Editors for Windows post, I decided to upgrade UltraEdit and wrap in the UltraCompare bundle. PSPad and a couple Notepad replacements such as Notepad2 and EDXOR will remain on my system. I’ll also keep an eye on TextMate knockoffs e and InType.

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Windows ships with Notepad, a bare bones text editor that manages to be both handy and next to useless. So if you do any regular text editing you need something more, an editor that can reformat text, record macros, do syntax highlighting, that supports regular expressions in its search/replace dialog, or knows about ftp. Perhaps [...]

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IBM has an article for developers about developing cross platform applications useing .NET. Well, using Mono. As someone who has (poorly) written a cross platform application using Mono I can say that it is definitely easy. As long as you keep portability in mind when programming the cross platform bit should fall into place without [...]

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The Hula Project is an open source calendar and email server that might one day make your life as an IT person very comfortable. It scales well and it has the necessary components for a small/medium sized business, but is it ready to replace your old Exchange box? v407 Note: We originally tested with version [...]

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Mozilla will be release the 1.5 Beta of Firefox next week on September 8th.

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Microsft released the WinFS beta recently, surprising man MSDN subscribers who thought it was a long way off. Any MSDN subscribers out there who can comment on it and how well it integrates with Longhorn/Vista? Seen here.

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Looks like the rumors were true. Google Talk is now live and you can chat with your gmail loving friends with just about any Jabber supporting client**. They have their own client for windows that also works as a gmail notifier as well. The service just works based off of your Gmail address, so you [...]

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More on building a reusable camcorder from a single-use CVS camcorder. CVS Camcorder Roundup Make Your Own Dakota Digital Camera Cable with a Palm III HotSync cable. Here’s a HOWTO article on using a Palm III cable for this project, seen here. Robogumby has posted a A Dummies Guide to the CVS camcorder. MakeZine has [...]

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Keeping your system and data secure can be a daunting task, but there are a wide range of tools available to help with the process. In this article I hope to sort out some of these issues and suggest some good programs to help with your security needs. Required Software At a minimum, a PC [...]

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